Losing a spouse is emotionally overwhelming, and the financial decisions thatfollow can feel just as heavy. The rules regarding Social Security survivorbenefits may be confusing for some, and many ...

A Social Security audit found that widows and widowers were quietly underpaid. Here is what went wrong, how much it cost, and ...

A widow at 60 walks into the Social Security office a few weeks after her husband’s funeral. He had been collecting $3,200 ...

“Social Security is supposed to step up when a spouse passes..." Kevin Thompson told Newsweek.

Widows and widowers lost thousands due to a Social Security blunder. Thousands of widows and widowers have been short-changed of their Social Security payments as a result of blunders by the Social ...

Say your ex-spouse is receiving $3,000 per month at full retirement age, providing you with a divorce benefit of $1,500 per month. If you remarry and your new partner is collecting $2,000 per month, ...

The 90-year-old retirement income program is marred by confusing rules, administrative snafus and uncertainty over what benefit cuts and tax hikes are to come.